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Trigger warning: Post contains brief mentions of historical animal cruelty and death (animal and people), including drowning, blood sports, and hypothermia. Curatorial and Outreach…

Curatorial and Outreach Assistant Jake Gentry showcases some the Lilly Library’s famous and lesser-known hairy materials! Raising awareness for men’s health issues through the…

It was, perhaps, unfair to introduce Allen Walker Read’s Lexical Evidence from Folk Epigraphy in the last post without providing a sample entry from it, but Read did not want to…

Allen Walker Read, who has already appeared in our posts, was a close friend of Madeline Kripke. He lived in the dictionary world, as an Assistant Editor of the Dictionary of…

Teaching and outreach assistant Maggie McDonald makes some magic in the stacks in celebration of the world premiere of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay opera at IU. The…

Curatorial and Outreach Assistant Jake Gentry calls forth spooky bookplates from the great beyond (the stacks of the Lilly Library), just in time for Halloween! The witching hour…

Curatorial and Outreach Assistant Jake Gentry goes foraging in our collections to find weird and wild specimens of flora, again! “…and those little things coming out here are…

Teaching and outreach assistant Helen Gunn looks for Vonnegut in his drafts of Slaughterhouse-Five. A walk through the Lilly Library’s stacks is a journey through time and space, a…

Curatorial and Outreach Assistant Jake Gentry goes foraging in our collections to find weird and wild specimens of flora. “But it’s absurd. Plants talking!” “So much more absurd…

Student Reference Assistant Benjamin Yusen shares his exploration of Boorman’s abandoned film epic. Most people who are familiar with the director-writer-producer John Boorman know…